Michael Kaplan

4 days ago | maxim.com | Michael Kaplan

The new book “Advantage Players” takes a deep dive into the world of winning. As a journalist, I’ve spent the last couple decades writing about people who beat casino games that are meticulously designed to be unbeatable. Those story subjects comprise an elite sector of math geniuses, casino hustlers and sharp-eyed phenoms. Ideally, the best of this breed possesses all three attributes.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Michael Kaplan

Victims of violent random sucker punching assaults in the city say they are being left gobsmacked a second time by the NYPD’s response to them. Four people who suffered random attacks told The Post they didn’t feel police took their cases seriously — even though two resulted in arrests. Last Wednesday author and influencer, Kindra Hall, 44, got punched in the head by a person she did not know on the Upper East Side.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Michael Kaplan

Haliey ‘Hawk Tuah’ Welch claims she had no idea what cryptocurrency was or how it worked before her disastrous meme coin launch. The viral sensation abruptly stopped her podcast and went to ground in December 2024 after the digital coin she backed, $HAWK, briefly soared then crashed. “I couldn’t tell you how crypto worked the day that coin launched,” she said on her podcast Talking Tuah, speaking for the first time about the scandal. “I had no idea. I don’t know. So that screwed me,” she added.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Michael Kaplan

Cryptocurrency titans make it seem easy for anyone to get rich off digital coins, and anyone who isn’t making millions in their free time is wasting an opportunity. Crypto really is the financial Wild West. There are almost no regulations or rules in digital coins as there are on the real-world currency exchanges and stock markets. That makes it all too easy for everyone from hardened criminal gangs to petty grifters to take advantage of anyone they can reach.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Michael Kaplan

Two months ago, a car of the future rolled out of a Los Angeles factory and onto the street. Called the Czinger 21C, it is mostly made with a gigantic 3-D printer. However, this electric hypercar is anything but a toy. With a starting price of $2 million, the two-seat rocket ship of a vehicle (one seat in front and one seat in back) has a top speed of 253 miles per hour and goes from zero to 62 in 1.9 seconds.